@metcalph: "...and I went down to the chemist and asked for some
cold medicine.  The sales assistant starts being
obstructively helpful by asking me if I was on any
medication and stuff like that. So I felt like 
responding:
	"I'll be on anti-psychotics soon enough if you
	don't hand over that damn medicine"
Seriously if I wanted medical advice, I'll go and
see a fucking doctor.  I don't see why I should be
subjected to forced advice for some common ailment
that consists of nothing more than what was written
on the packet.
Peter Metcalfe "
    @dewhurst: "<quote>
Each time I buy some Voltaren tablets I have to listen to the same spiel!
Am I taking an other medicine?  Have I used it before?  Etc.  Even 
though I may be buying the stuff from the same chemist.
R"
    @kneich: ""Peter Metcalfe" <email_address> wrote in message 
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<quote>
Was most impressed with my dentist this week, who relayed some complicated 
instructions re aftercare to me, not to my mother when she picked me up. He 
even set the nurse straight, when she tried to fuss coz my body just went a 
bit awol on me in the chair. Forgot how good that sort of regard feels.
ps. get well. I could send some juice around..."
    @user: "<quote>
A few years ago you would have needed a prescription for Voltaren.
A "free" lecture from a pharmacist is cheaper."
    @dewhurst: "<quote>
In Denmark the chemist would not sell me aspirin without a prescription! 
  All I could get, off the shelf, for a cold, were some sugar pills.
R
R"
    @kneich: ""David" <email_address> wrote in message 
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On Oct 10, 1:09 pm, Peter Metcalfe <email_address>
wrote:
<quote>
 Would be interested in reports.
I must have the same one.
Got it in the North Island
or possibly in the plane on the way up...
...its a real head-banger!
-D.
k: 'specially when ya trip in the loo, & end up in hospital. no fukn fun. 
take care. "
    @arfarf: ""Peter Metcalfe" <email_address> wrote in message 
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<quote>
Totally agree unless you ask...annoys the hell out of me to
Sarns "
    @arfarf: ""Kay Neich" <email_address> wrote in message 
news:<email_address>
<quote>
Yes my uncle with cerebral palsy used to get sooooo frustrated that people 
acted as if he was mentally rather than physically incapacitated and got 
quite hacked off when ignored...that must be so irritating.
Wahhh don't talk about dentists...scoffing my lunch today and a chunk of 
tooth from the lower front fell out...shite i haven't even put in the travel 
insurance claim for the dental visit i took in Australia on 15 September 
*sigh*... i've already queried just having the dam things ripped out and 
getting falsies and was told no dentist in NZ would do it...it's just beyond 
a joke... bloody cash cow for them.
Sarns "
    @arfarf: ""Kay Neich" <email_address> wrote in message 
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<quote>
I've been unwell since getting back from Aussie...day before we left ...17 
Sep, developed nastyyyy sore throat... turned into most god awful coff 
[almost throwing up with it, and it is worse at night] with a sore 
throat...shove me on Amoxycillin...seemed to work until the day before the 
tabs ran out and it reverted back to how it originally was...sore throat [so 
sore pain shoots through ears when swallow and feels like throat is closing 
over]...go back to doc this week...takes a look down me throat...sez oh yes 
your tonsils are inflammed and shoves me on Erythromycin which the past 3 
days seems to have done nothing but the Voltaren tablet i'm taking at night 
is doing wonders for keepin the sore throat at bay until about 7 the 
following night.  It's just going on and on and on...
Sick of it!  Maybe i should find a nice pharmacist.....LOL
Sarns "
    @kneich: ""Apairateef" <email_address> wrote in message 
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<quote>
ah, Sarns. bad, bad luck. it stays around for yonks. cough, cough, cough. 
nothing worked for anyone i've known with similar symptoms this year, 'cept 
time. commiserations.
um..... rem scarfs, hats, not running out just after shower (like that's 
possible).
lv,
k "
    @arfarf: ""Kay Neich" <email_address> wrote in message 
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<quote>
I shall suffer in silence [COFF COFF]  actual i don't think the air in my 
office area helps..lucky i don't spend too much time in the room...all about 
the place...
Yeah i'm so practicial i make myself sick :-) thanks for the reminders!
xx
Sarns "
    @arfarf: ""Tony in Oz" <email_address> wrote in message 
news:JUBHk.4464$<email_address>
<quote>
Well i sorta have to wonder about dr's sometimes... but then i hate the 
dumbing down that seems to resonate thru the pharmaceutical world to the 
average joe bloggs to, at times, enforce superiority.
I guess it all just depends if you have a good rapport with your pharmacist 
rather than go see a different one every time to.
Sarns "
    @kneich: ""Apairateef" <email_address> wrote in message 
news:48eedd54$<email_address>
<quote>
gatecrashing a thread...
just scary sometimes now when info gets all muddled up. i do understand that 
anger tho'. i wanna know more about your uncle, at some stage.
ouch! to have to go back to a dentist for more so soon. damn!
$400 for stuff done on me. thank you. but he was wonderful. on hillsborough 
rd.
k "
    @kneich: ""Kay Neich" <email_address> wrote in message 
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<quote>
Place is just called, "The Dentist", but I'll look him up for ya properly if 
you need. just shout. i guess emb already has a good one too. ours' did save 
my parents from getting crowns when their former dentist said it was 
necessary. "
    @phildoran: "If you ask for cold medication, the pharmacist should make sure that you 
really need it.
Some medications are being used to make P, by people who are doing the 
rounds of the pharmacies.
Don't be offended if they ask for ID or something. "
    @arfarf: ""Kay Neich" <email_address> wrote in message 
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<quote>
:-) for sure .. hell i get stuff muddled up to...it's a human thing not a 
condition thing i think LOL
Ahhh yes...passed that one several times... altho he's had a biggggg 
renovation thing going on...thought he might have hiked prices up to pay for 
it LOL.... still it's never a cheap fix with teef is it... my trip to 
dentist in aussie cost $325 nz but i thought would be a shiteload more.
Sarns "
    @arfarf: ""Kay Neich" <email_address> wrote in message 
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<quote>
LOLZ Emb doesn't like dentists....... shhh it's a secret'
Sarns "
    @kneich: ""Apairateef" <email_address> wrote in message 
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<quote>
my fear too!!!! i've no comparision. i went coz he's used to me. first tooth 
extraction in my life. no problem in the end :-))))))) "
    @arfarf: ""Kay Neich" <email_address> wrote in message 
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<quote>
Yayyy go that man :-)
I haved to admit.... the dentist in Pacific Fair mall, Broad beach, gold 
coast... told him i'd fly back anytime to have his tools in my mouth LOL.... 
best experience with a dentist i've had apart from the endodontist i had to 
go to couple years back... but i took drugs for that LOLOL
Sarns [waiting for the wise crax] "
    @kneich: ""Apairateef" <email_address> wrote in message 
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<quote>
We're speechless...!"
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